Web review: Contrast media in radiology and imaging

Few web-based sites related to contrast media in radiology and imaging, available at the moment, are reviewed below.


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Symposium on Ultrasound Contrast for Radiological Diagnosis titled Bubbles in Radiology -The State of the Art is
Introduction to Intravenous Radiographic Contrast is a concise summary of the subject by Romell Dhadha.Featured as a part of the Department of Radiology Short Clerkship: Lectures at University of Iowa, the material is available at htt p://www.radiology.uiowa.
1. edu/Radshortclerkship/RadShortClkship/LectureNotes/ Dhada.htm.2. A Simple Guide to the Basics of Contrast Media is available in the form of Guide notes at http:// www.e-radiography.net/contrast_media/contrast_media_introduction.htm.The material includes iodinated intravascular contrast agents, barium sulfate, computerized tomography (CT) contrast agents, biliary contrast agents and reactions, allergic emergencies.3. From eMedicine, comprehensive educative material on radiographic iodinated contrast media is obtainable at htt p://www.emedicine.com/radio/byname/contrastmedium-reactions-recognition-and-treatment.htm.4. The webportal Chest Xray.com deals concisely with radiology contrast at http://www.chestx-ray.utoronto.ca/EchoHandbook/.Within this, there is an Interactive Glossary of Contrast Ultrasound at htt p://www.sunnybrook.utoronto.ca/EchoHandbook/bookindex.htm.7. Controversies and Consensus in Imaging and Interventions is a journal for medical imaging professionals, focusing on current issues in radiology, imaging and interventional radiology/cardiology and CT radiology.This website, sponsored by an educational grant from GE Healthcare, has a section on contrast media that is available at htt p://www.c2i2.org/contrast_media.asp.8.An educative supplement on Issues in Contrast and CT Angiography with Multislice CT is featured in Applied Radiology (Mar 2002), accessible at htt p://www.appliedradiology.com/backissues/issue.asp?ID=71, aft

College of Radiology Standards for Iodinated Intravascular Contrast Agent Administration to Adult Patient, available
from htt p://www.rcr.ac.uk/ docs/radiology/pdf/IVcontrastPrintFinal.pdf.

10. Review Articles/Citations on Contrast media in Radiology:
There are numerous articles on contrast media in radiology available from various journals.From these, a handy 'must read' list of review articles on this subject, published in recent times and available online, is given below in Table1.

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Indrajit: Web Review: Contrast media in radiology and imaging sections on UltraSound Technology, Knowledge 3D and 4D UltraSound, Contrast Agents, various examinations, History of UltraSound, Image Quality Artifacts, Probes Transducers and UltraSound Physics.Relevant to the topic of this web review, from the above two information portal sites, contrast agents is covered at htt p://www.mr-tip.com/serv1.MedicalWikis are the medical equivalent of Wikipedia.They are hosted with an aim to offer comprehensive, veritable and up-to-the-minute information from a single point and that too on a large scale.Medical Wikis are emerging on the net as this List of Medical Wikis at htt p:// davidrothman.net/list-of-medical-wikis/suggests.How far would they evolve and progress, what innovative features would they off er a decade from now, what are the advantageous spinoff s emerging from such websites and what is the endpoint in such websites are some of the hazardous questions that mystifyingly stare at us.Nevertheless, when it comes to the discipline of radiology, the following Radiology Wikis are available at the moment: a. RadiologyWiki at htt p://www.radiologywiki.org/wiki.This site has a radiology image search functionally similar to ARRS Goldminer, Yott alook and Google image search.Titled Ajax, this Þ ltered radiology image search engine is available at htt p://www.radiologywiki.org/w/index.php?title=AJAX_Search.b.RadsWiki at http://www.radswiki.net/main/index.php?title=Main_Page.This site has many sections, including those on named fractures, radiology in movies, diff erential diagnosis and a list of signs in radiology.c.Diagnostic Radiology Wikibooks is an open-content textbook collection at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Diagnostic_Radiology. d. wikiRadiography at htt p://www.wikiradiography.com/ is an radiography resource on the web with sections on Applied Radiography writt en by M. J. Fuller, General Radiography, Computed Tomography, U/S, MRI and Mammography Homepages.